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Modularization of Education - I find this to be true in professional development as well. We are training more and more little one technology skill classes than ever before. Instead of training a whole day on how to use the SMART Board - one hour or so training on one or two features of the SMART Board. One or two apps at a time. One or two small compentencies...

I just downloaded the free version which looks good, but may have to upgrade. The features look well worth the $3.99 price. You can move & resize your drawn objects, zoom in/out, etc. If you're working on creating "flipped classroom" videos, or how-to tutorials this may be what you need. Check out their website and user guide for the details.

Gehry Technologies has spent the last several decades developing a digital system for sharing and working on architectural plans and diagrams and other types of building information modeling, and now he's trying to share it across the industry,...

“It’s a category that’s really well suited to the cloud when you think about the kind of scale of data that exists in a lot of these projects,” he says. “You know, some of them range to terabytes of information.”

Not only are the files complex, but records of who has edited, and when, and how add another level that Box helps sort out. And, points out Levie, because the files are so big, they’ve instituted a feature where users can see the renderings before downloading them, to make sure they’re looking at the right ones.

“I think when you can bring these tools to the masses, it really opens up innovation in an incredible way,” says Levie.

Gehry concurs. “I’ve dedicated a whole pile of my life — time and effort — on this topic,” he says, because most of the architecture around the world he hardly considers architecture. “It’s just buildings. And I have this hope that if we have the right tools out there that people with talent can prevail, and can show how you can build wonderful buildings for the same cost.”

if you use GoogleDrive for student assignments submission and doc sharing this tool is very handy: it creates a folder for your class based on your student enrollment where you can manage the assignments and doc sharing. Can be done every semester. Detailed instructions here: http://www.gclassfolders.com/folder-structure

Intrigued to learn about this Venn diagram of three forms of learning digital learning tools, for which several are listed as having elements off all three forms. Digital, on-line educators, what do you think? ~ Deb

Recently we were working with a free rapid dev piece of software called SmartBuilder which is Flash-based (but supposedly getting an HTML5 fall-back in a new version). The first question that came up was, "What about Mobile devices?" Turns out there are actually a few solutions available out there in order to view Flash-based content via mobile (and :

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